Khaled Abou Slimane

Khaled Abou Slimane (born 1977) is the emir of the Jund al-Khilafa, an Algerian terrorist group.

Biography
The illiterate son of Algerian farmers, he was born in either 1977 or 1978. A close friend of al-Qaeda, he joined their Islamic Maghreb chapter and became the leader of the Jund al-Khilafa group, who were responsible for many attacks in the Kabilye region. He led a barracks attack that killed 18 people and an assault on a gendarmerie school, killing 60. On 14 September 2014, he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State and ten days later, he beheaded the French tour guide Herve Gourdel in revenge for France's involvement in the Syrian Civil War airstrikes against IS.